Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A heat-cured Italian sausage usually made of ground pork and cubes of pork fat and flavored with wine and spices.
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- noun A smooth-textured
Italian pork sausage with lumps offat , flavoured withspices ; eaten cold.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The word mortadella came into Italian in the Middle Ages from French and then Tuscan, having originated in the Latin word for the mortar in which the meat was pounded.
Delizia! John Dickie 2008
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My account of the history of the word mortadella draws on V.
Delizia! John Dickie 2008
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And not long after Croce’s death the word mortadella would become exclusively joined forever both to the kind of sausage we know today and to the city of Bologna.
Delizia! John Dickie 2008
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Five centuries ago, Platina remarked on the need to cook liver sausage gently see box, p. 169, and said that another sausage was called mortadella “because it is surely more pleasant a little raw than overcooked.”
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Five centuries ago, Platina remarked on the need to cook liver sausage gently see box, p. 169, and said that another sausage was called mortadella “because it is surely more pleasant a little raw than overcooked.”
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Often known simply as “Bologna”—hence the American corruption baloney—a mortadella is a chubby cylinder of cooked sausage in string, generally about the size of a small baby.
Delizia! John Dickie 2008
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The American word "baloney" derives from the city of Bologna in Italy, where they call a fine-ground pork sausage "mortadella" -- although in America baloney can also derive from chicken, turkey, or beef.
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The author prefers to think that the generalizations in X Saves the World are more along the lines of mortadella, which is that really expensive and delicious baloney they make in Italy.
Journalist Jeff Gordinier Teaches You How To Write Funny 2008
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His generalizations "are more along the lines of mortadella, which is that really expensive and delicious baloney they make in Italy."
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The Muff-a-lotta sandwich packs mortadella, salami, provolone and house-made olive salad.
Food in photos: Bayou Bakery Justin Rude 2011
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From Wikipedia: "The Italian politician, prime minister and former President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004, Romano Prodi, who loves Bologna, is usually nicknamed 'Mortadella' by the Italian press because of his origin and presumed resemblance to the pale pink sausage."
I love Italy.
January 17, 2008